Word: controller
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Philadelphia police commissioner John Timoney and Mayor John Street have been doing around-the-clock damage control, scrambling to salvage the city's image just two weeks before the Republican National Convention comes to town. Timoney told TIME that while the video "does not look good--in fact it looks awful," the public should withhold judgment until investigations are done. "What you're seeing is the last 28 sec. of a 20-min. car chase during which a police officer was shot." For now, 12 officers have been placed on administrative duty, eight who were involved in the gunplay...
...attempts to clinch a deal on peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The summit is a high-stakes attempt by the departing American President to force a "full, fair and final" settlement of such explosive issues as the return of Palestinian refugees, boundaries of a Palestinian state and control of Jerusalem--in short, all the issues dividing the two sides. Along the arbored paths of Camp David, over meals of steak and salmon or in their private cabins, every foreign policy heavyweight in the Administration, including Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, is hammering...
...around the world, about 1,500 people die from septic shock every day. Now help may be on the way. A new drug has stopped the progression of sepsis in clinical trials of dangerously ill victims, while another shows promise of halting the disease before it gets out of control...
George W. Bush must have been pleased with himself Sunday as he sat in his ranch with the doors closed, the chattering classes voluble but unconfident, and in real suspense. The man who puts a premium on loyalty (or fealty) has also put a premium on control - control of the pace and pitch of information, and thus of speculation, surrounding his vice-presidential choice. And in waiting not for a mere announcement or a leak to be confirmed (that would seem spinnish, and besides that comes later) but for The Man to Decide, we are supposed to think of this...
...together a Bush-McCain ticket since the end of the GOP primaries. The Arizona senator is the most popular Republican in the country and vulnerable House members have the fistful of polls to prove it. If McCain goes on the ticket they think they'll be able to keep control of the House...